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Strong's #5059 - τέρας
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- a prodigy, portent
- miracle: performed by any one
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τέρας, τό:
gen. αος (not in Hom. or Hes.), Ion. εος Hdt. 8.37: pl., nom. τέραα Od. 12.394, Ion. τέρεα Hdt. l.c., τεράᾰτᾰ D.P. 604, Q.S. 5.43; τέρᾱ A.R. 4.1410, but τέρᾰ Nic. Th. 186; τέρα (quantity not stated) Att. acc. to Moer. p.369 P., cf. Ar. Ra. 1343; gen. τεράων Il. 12.229, τερέων Alc. 155; Att. τερῶν acc. to Moer.l.c., Thom.Mag. p.348 R.; dat. τεράεσσι Il. 4.398, al.; later τέρασι LXX De. 26.8, al.: the forms τέρατ-ος, -ι, -α, -ων are Hellenistic, Moer. pp.366,369 P., Thom.Mag. p.348 R. (τέρατα LXX Exodus 4:21, al., τεράτων ib. Psalms 105:27 (104). 27); gen. sg. τέρως v.l. in Paus. 10.26.3: lengthd. metri gr. τείρεα Il. 18.485 (= IG 42(1).129.9), Arat. 692, A.R. 3.1362; τείρεσιν h.Mart. 7; later τείρεσσι IG 14.2461.11 (Massilia): —
sign, wonder, marvel, portent, ἡμῖν μὲν τόδ' ἔφηνε τ. Ζεύς Il. 2.324; ᾐτέομεν δὲ θεὸν φῆναι τ. Od. 3.173; τοῖσιν.. θεοὶ τέραα προὔφαινον 12.394; τέρας ἧκε Κρόνου πάϊς 21.415; Ζεὺς δ' Ἔριδα προΐαλλε.., πολέμοιοτ. μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχουσαν a sign of coming battle, Il. 11.4; esp. of signs in heaven, ἀστέρα ἧκε Κρόνου πάϊς.., ναύτῃσι τ. 4.76; ἴρισσιν ἐοικότες, ἅς τε Κρονίων ἐν νέφεϊ στήριξε τ. μερόπων ἀνθρώπων 11.28, cf. 17.548; and with pass. Verbs, τ. φανήτω Od. 20.101: — so always when the first syll. is lengthd., v. supr.: — also in Prose, ἢν δὲ χειμῶνος βροντὴ γένηται, ὡς τέρας θωμάζεται Hdt. 4.28, cf. 6.98; τ. πέμπειν X. Mem. 1.4.15; ἐφάνη Hdt. 7.57; ἐπιγίνεταί σφι τέρεα Id. 8.37, cf. Hes. Th. 744, Pi. O. 13.73, etc.; freq. in NT, σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα Mark 13:22, al.
II in concrete sense, monster, Διὸς τ. αἰγιόχοιο, of the Gorgon 's head, Il. 5.742; of a serpent, 12.209, h.Ap. 302; δάϊον τ., of Typhoeus, A. Pr. 354; ἀπρόσμαχον τ., of Cerberus, S. Tr. 1098; οὔρειον τ., of the Sphinx, E. Ph. 806 (lyr.); ταῦρον, ἄγριον τ. Id. Hipp. 1214, cf. 1247; ὅλον τ. ὀπτήσας.. βασιλεῖ παρέθηκε κάμηλον Antiph. 172.7 (anap.), cf. Epicr. 3.13; used by Cicero of Caesar, Att. 8.9.4.
2. monstrous birth, monstrosity, Pl. Cra. 393b, 394a, Aeschin. 3.111, Arist. GA 769b30, 773a3, Vett.Val. 341.13; ὡς ἔθρεψεν ἔκπαγλον τ. A. Ch. 548.
III in colloquial language, τέρας λέγεις καὶ θαυμαστόν Pl. Hp.Ma. 283c, cf. Tht. 163d; τέρας λέγεις, εἰ.. Id. Men. 91d; 'a marvel' of a cup, Theoc. 1.56: pl., of incredible statements, Phld. Mus. p.74 K.
τέρας, genitive τερατος, pl. τέρατα (cf. κέρας, at the beginning), τό (apparently akin to the verb τερρέω; accordingly something so strange as to cause it to be 'watehed' or 'observed'; (others connect it with ἀστήρ, ἀστραπή, etc., hence, 'a sign in the heavens'; Vanicek, p. 1146; Curtius, § 205); see Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans iii., p. 270), from Homer down, the Sept. for מופֵת, a prodigy, portent; miracle (A. V. wonder) performed by anyone; in the N. T. it is found only in the plural and joined with σημεῖα; for the passages see σημεῖον, p. 574{a}.
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τέρας , -ατος , τό ,
[in LXX chiefly for H4159;]
a wonder, marvel: in NT always pl., τ . κ . σημεῖα , Matthew 24:24, al. (see σημεῖον ).
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τροποφορέω —
For this verb which is read in Acts 13:18 from LXX Deuteronomy 1:31 B* = ";bear another’s manner,"; cf. Cic. ad Att. xiii. 29. 2 τὸν τῦφόν μου, πρὸς θεῶν, τροποφόρησον.
τροφοφορέω —
";bear like a nurse,"; takes the place of τροποφορέω (q.v.) in Acts 13:18, following LXX Deuteronomy 1:31 Ba : but cf. Blass ad Ac I.c.—";non video quomodo formari potuerit τροφοφ.";
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